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Pre-sowing • Trellis

Climbing zucchini

Product information

Description

Most zucchini plants take up a lot of space. Not ours. By guiding the long stem along your trellis, this climbing variety only needs 30x30 cm to grow big and tall. Also: it's delicious.

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Sowing: 25 April - 31 May

Level 1

pre-sprouting

Level 2

sowed indoors

Level 3

first seedlings visible

Level 4

big seedlings

Level 5

small plants

Level 6

first day hardened-off

Level 7

Hardened-off 2 days

Level 8

Hardened-off 3 days

Level 9

Hardened-off 4 days

Level 10

hardened-off 5 days

Level 11

at final spot

Level 12

little plant at trellis

Level 13

plant reaches trellis

Level 14

flowers visible

Level 15

first harvest

Level 16

harvesting

Sowing time: end of April - mid May indoors
Height: 180 cm
Contents: 4 seeds
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  • The app helps you with almost everything you do in your vegetable garden: sowing, tending, and harvesting.
  • If something goes wrong, the app tells you what steps to take.
  • If that doesn’t work, you can ask us for advice.
  • If that still doesn’t help, we’ll look for other solutions together. Until we get it right.

Climbing zucchini

Most zucchini take up lots of space. But a climbing zucchini just needs a trellis. The long stem weaves upward, so it fits perfectly in your 30x30 square patch.
  • Species name: Black Forest F1
  • Family: fruit
  • Plants per square patch: 1
  • Height: up to 200 cm
  • Sowing: from end of April to end of May
  • Germination: between 20 and 25°C in 4 to 10 days
  • Time to harvest: from 9 to 10 weeks
  • Sunlight: needs a sunny spot
Want to buy climbing zucchini seeds? We sell them in individual seed bags, or you can find them in our climbing vegetable seed pack:

What's so special about our climbing zucchini

First off, our zucchinis are delicious. They produce a lot and you can harvest from July through October.

You can't grow most zucchini varieties in garden boxes because they need a lot of room to spread out. They'll take over your garden in no time.

Our climbing zucchini grows upward, not outward. You help it out by guiding its long stem along a trellis. So, it doesn't take up as much space and definitely won't take over.

Sowing and growing

Zucchini is a serious summer vegetable: the seeds germinate between 15 and 20°C. The seedlings don't like colder weather.

So, pre-sow your zucchini seeds indoors, and move your plants outdoors when they're strong and the weather is warm enough.

Pick a patch at the back of your garden box under the trellis. Ideally, you plant zucchini in a side patch so its big leaves can flop over the edge.

A zucchini plant needs a lot of nutrients. Give it some extra MM-Plantfood when you plant it, and add some more in mid-July.

Step-by-step sowing and growing instructions are in the Planty Gardening app.

How do you use zucchini?

Zucchini are tastiest when they're 20 - 30 cm long. Cut them off at their thick short stalk. Harvest early so your plant will produce more flowers. (More flowers mean more zucchini.)

Zucchinis are quick and easy to cook. You can boil them briefly, toss them in a stir fry, make a soup, or grill them. Cubed zucchini is great for omelets or pasta sauces. You can even eat small zucchinis raw.

And yes, the flowers are edible too 🙂

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